I'm not making hand-waving assertions -- my fingers are on my
keyboard as I type.
The feedback you're receiving loud and clear from me and many
others is that the balance has gone too far toward the extreme of
defining html5 as a language that is the union of all markup
constructs seen on the Web.
I rest my case by pointing at the size of the document --- for
particular examples, see the thread about table structure that
was used on this list as an argument for dismissing having any
kind of formal description for the language.
David Hyatt writes:
> On May 1, 2007, at 2:17 PM, T.V Raman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Despite your assertion that that's what WA1.0 does,
> > I think the feedback you're receiving loud and clear from everyone
> > from outside
> > the community that wrote that spec is to the contrary. To date,
> > I've seen all of that feedback dismissed rather peremptorily ---
> > and in some sense, just asserting "that is what we're doing" is
> > also just as dismissive.
> >
> > I personally dont concur with that assertion.
> >
>
> Provide concrete examples then. If you're claiming that WA1.0 does
> not do this, then provide examples please. Hand waving assertions
> that it does not do this are not helpful.
>
> dave
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